The Founders

Spirited for success

CPH World Media is a melting pot of challenges that you will face every day. It is an atmosphere where you will be able to utilize your area of specialty and experience to the brim, where you will come across peers with the same degree of hunger for success as yours. Although you will touch base with reality’s responsibilities from day one, you will be cushioned with just enough support and guidance to succeed.

Perhaps most motivating about the company is that there is much to be learned regularly. That is one of the reasons why many employees who join the team remain part of it year on year. Check out our varying departments and their members.

In 1960, Mr. Fathi Chatila graduated from the University of Miami, Florida with a Bachelor of Science in Geology. He joined the Ministry of Water and Electricity in 1961 and then the UNDP team overtaking the Hydro-Geological Studies for Lebanon where he studied of the interior basics, namely Litani, Hasbani, and Orontes.

In 1970, Mr. Fathi joined a newly formed department in the ministry known as “Geology and Hydrology”.

In 1977, Mr. Fathi resigned from his post to start his dream project with his wife Mona and voyage new waters: publishing waterHQ (previously Arab Water World (AWW)) magazine. The first issue came into being in January 1977.

waterHQ magazine has remained to this day a leading and pioneering publication in the water, wastewater, desalination, and energy sectors in the MENA region and in the world. The rest, as they say, is history…You can browse and know more throughout this website.

Mr. Fathi Chatilahas passed away on December 11th 2017 after a struggle with health complications related to his liver / kidneys. He shall be sorely missed but we shall strive to ensure his legacy continues and prospers.

Having graduated in 2002 with a BS in Architecture from the American University of Beirut (AUB), Mohamad Rabih Chatila – son of Mr. Fathi Chatila (CPH President & Publisher) and the late Mrs. Mona Chatila (Former Administrative Manager – Former Mail & Services Manager) – was driven by his passion since the early 1990s to join the media business via Chatila Publishing House (CPH). In 1993, he took his first step as a Mail & Services Coordinator.

In 1998, Mohamad Rabih assumed the duties of an Assistant Editor & Researcher with proactive participation and noticeable contribution in various other departments, all the while trying to improve the overall management and structure of CPH.

Through hard work, dedication and elevated responsibility in upholding his tasks and assignments, Mohamad Rabih gradually advanced through the CPH career lane, having been promoted in 2000 to the position of Editor & Researcher and again in 2001 to Managing Editor & Assistant General Manager. In July 2002, upon graduating from the American University of Beirut (AUB) as an Architect, Mohamad Rabih was promoted to General Manager of CPH.

Mohamad Rabih is a strong worker in the mission of CPH, which is “Helping Advance MENA & Beyond”. In order to achieve this objective, he makes sure all needed efforts are being made so that all CPH media bring real, useful, and up-to-date information to readers and clients. Furthermore, he has continuously insisted on having a bilingual approach in various CPH media in order to make sure that the information is reached by the maximum number of people throughout the MENA region and beyond.

Mohamad Rabih’s ambition and expectations for CPH are very high. This is because such an institution that has, since its inception in 1977, been dedicated to helping advance developing regions and all the companies within the MENA working in industries that are fundamental to humanity, deserves nothing but the very best.

Finally, Mohamad Rabih always mentions, and fervently, to colleagues and friends at CPH that “The sky is way beyond the limit” and keeps acting accordingly!

Mrs. Mona Chatila – Former Administrative Manager

B: 1944 – D: 2006

The late Mrs. Mona Chatila was born on Monday, January 24th, 1944. Mona graduated from Al-Istiklal High School in 1962. Later, she joined Ras Beirut Music Center, where she obtained a certificate in piano playing under the supervision of Dr. Mike Herro, and became a piano instructor there in addition to teaching students privately.

In 1967, Mrs. Mona got married to Mr. Fathi Chatila and they had three children:

Rajaa was born in 1968. She obtained her MD from AUB in 1994 and received her board from Yale University in CN-USA in Gastroenterology in 1998.

Hiba was born in 1973. She graduated from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 1992 with BS in Business Administration.

Mohamad Rabih was born in 1976. He graduated from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in July 2002 as an Architect.

Together with her husband, Mrs. Mona founded the Chatila Publishing House (CPH) and started publishing the waterHQ (previously Arab Water World (AWW)) magazine in 1977. The rest, as they say, is history (you can browse various sections of this website to know more details).

Mrs. Mona Chatila passed away on Thursday, December 6th, 2006 after a relatively short struggle with severe lung disease; may God have mercy on her soul and may she be happy and smiling at us and blessing us from heaven where we pray and believe she is…

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